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TITLE : ClA Information Telegram
DATE : 9/19/1963
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COMMENTS : National Security Files, Box 200: Vietnam,9/17/1963-9/21/63. Box 2

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i COUNTRY ot VIETNAM : ; REPORT NO. “TDCS DB-3/656, 739

| SUBJECT . GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH PLANS TO MAKE HIS - DATE DISTR. 19 SEPTEMBER .1963 i
1 FINAL : DECISION /SOON ON ANY “ACTION AGAINST ; . i
THE DIEM REGIME . PRECEDENCE ROUTINE ,
: DATEOR 15 + 16 SEPTOMEER 1963 | REFERENCES oN pe7ty.
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: PLACE & VIETNAM, - SAIGON (16 - 17 SEPTEMBER 1963)

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: APPRAISAL SEE HELOW : "| SIELD REPORT NO. FVS. ac 9660 -

H THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION. SOURCE GRADINGS. ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.

! source A. COMPA OFFICER (F) ON THE STAFF OF GENERAL NG KHANH
:’ APPR KHANH MAY, SITLL BE THINKING ABOUT ANTI. GOVERNMENT ACTION >» BUT WITHOUT ASSURANCES

FROM THE UNITED STATES OF SUPPORT, . HE’ WILL.PROBABLY NOT INITIATE ANY ACTION.

.. NEVERTHELESS, THE POSSIBILITY .OF - HIS MOUNTING A COUP D'ETAT CANNOT BE COMPLETELY:
“EDISCOUNIED ° SINCE AN INDIVIDUAL. CONNECTED WITH THE TRAN KIM TUYEN COUP GROUP HAS .
SAID THAT KHANH MIGHT TAKE. ACTION ‘AGAINST THE DIEM GOVERNMENT, AND SINCE : ‘KHANE'S -
NAME BAS BEEN MENTIONED AS ONE OF A NUMBER OF ALLEGEDLY - DISSIDENT GENERALS . oo

. ie . on 15 SEPTEMBER 1963 BRIGADIER GENERAL NGUYEN KHANH, ui
am CORPS: COMMANDER, SAID THAT: HE WOULD DECIDE IN A.DAY ‘OR TWO

REGIME. “(FIELD COMMENT. SEE FVS-963t,. tpespB-3/656,637, . FOR’ PREV! ous
CREF ORT, ON, KHANH? S PLANNING -) HE. REMARKED. THAT IF HIS DECISION WERE

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t . SEPTEMBER x KHAN SAID. THAT. HE HAD CHANGED HIS MIND ‘AND woud MULL

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